Ned Price says Blinken’s meeting with Lavrov was brief encounter

Antony Blinken’s meeting with his Russian colleague Sergey Lavrov within the G20 summit in New Delhi was a brief encounter and not a full bilateral meeting, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing.

"We’re not expecting any more formal senior-level dialogue in the near term. Of course, we’re always going to remain open to dialogue. We believe in dialogue, we believe in diplomacy, especially – even when times are tense, especially when the state of our relationship is as it is now, and as the Russians are perpetrating what they’re doing against Ukraine. There are issues that are of profound importance to the United States, but also issues that have profound importance to the rest of the world. But there was no agreement or consensus coming out of that brief encounter for any sort of follow-up discussion, but we’re always going to take advantage of opportunities to convey our interests in manners that are clear and direct whenever we can,” Price noted.





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